The first of several e-learning sessions at BILETA began after lunch.
My own paper on using delicious for collaborative shared resources is online at slideshare. Questions focussed on dealing with disputes, if students felt that academic papers were wrongly annotated or inappropriate tags were used. Further discussion looked at whether collaborative work was disadvantageous and that good students would be 'carrying' weaker students, although the experience itself is on its own is a personal learning experience.
The second speaker, Erich Schweighofer from Vienna, gave an interesting paper on semi-automatic marking for legal essays. The challenge of marking large numbers of student essays with low numbers of faculty/staff has led to the development of a computer system to analyse essay content. This reminded me of the comparative paired methodology SWAP workshop that I attended in Jan 2009. Erich's system can be seen as more consistent than human marking, but may not always be as accurate for longer written essays. Indeed multiple choice and short answers can be graded easily and accurately by computer systems.
Pheh Hoon Lim (Auckland University) presented a comparative paper regarding copyright (essentially a legal test with plagiarism (which is an ethical test). Looking to the older case of Pike v Nicholas [1869] and the more recent da Vinci case. An interesting table gave examples of when copyright is infringed, when plagiarism occurs, when attribution can be a defence, and when it cannot.
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